Baroness Trumpington admits she is a very naughty peer. When the 91-year-old
former minister was caught flicking a V-sign in the House of Lords, at first
she pretended she had been crimping her hair. She soon “fessed up” but says:
“I still don’t know where that damn camera is in the House of Lords. If I
did, I would avoid it.”

When she became a codebreaker at Bletchley Park during the war, Trumpers
caused chaos careering round corridors in a laundry basket, and her party
piece on the night shift was Chattanooga Choo Choo.